WE GOT ONE!!!

This means that President Trump is safe from Mueller’s probe into Michael Flynn. 2 years and 40 million dollars wasted. Good luck trying to prosecute Trump now. Heh heh heh.

Many mainstream journalists and pundits have made much of the filings despite their almost total information deficit, suggesting the insights provided by Flynn could amount to the bombshell proof of collusion they’ve desperately craved for so long.

However, few if any have acknowledged a crucial qualifier — the filings specifically refer to “the content and context of interactions between [Trump’s] transition team and the Russian government”, in other words any contact that took place during the 73-days between election day (November 8 2016) and inauguration day (January 20 2017).

1/ Notes on Flynn memo: Mueller distinguishes his cooperation in two cases, a) an unspecified criminal probe b) the Russia probe. So when Mueller says Flynn has met w/ federal prosecutors 19 times, those meetings could be for either of those two cases. Important distinction.

3/ Back to that distinction: one difference I want to flag is that when it comes to the unspecified (non-Mueller) criminal probe, Flynn’s cooperation is described as “substantial assistance.” When it comes to the Mueller probe, it’s just “has also assisted” — no “substantial.”

-Aaron Mate @aaronjmate (Twitter)

As a result, the focus of Mueller’s probe into Flynn’s activities was always destined to be the two-and-a-half-months leading up to Trump’s ‘swearing in’ as President — and contact that took place between the President-elect’s staff and Russian officials during this period is certainly no indication of pre-election collusion of any kind.

Still, the detail of Flynn’s contact with Kremlin representatives is certainly worthy of investigation, for it does point to collaboration between Trump’s team and a foreign power — albeit not Russia.

This “pressure campaign” was launched after the direct urging of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — and saw Flynn contact then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak, and ask him to ensure Russia voted against the resolution.